The bill moves the program from its nonprofit status to the Colorado Attorney General’s Office, with an annual budget of about $250,000.

“Today marks the day the Arapahoe Warriors went back to school, three weeks after a horrifying day where a fellow student stormed the school, and 16 days after shooting victim Claire Davis lost her battle to survive,” Senate President-elect Morgan Carroll, D-Aurora, said Tuesday
. “Programs like Safe2Tell are proven tools in school safety, and we’re here today to make sure that keeps going.”

“Fifteen years after Columbine, school violence continues to be a problem,” Suthers said, “and we have every reason to believe it is an issue we must continue to deal with effectively, and anonymous reporting is going to be a big part of that.”

Anonymous tips to Safe2Tell can be made year-round and round-the-clock, and information is immediately forwarded to local school officials and law enforcement.

The move into the attorney general’s office will give “some needed stability to the program, so Safe2Tell can continue to be a resource for students to report potentially disastrous or dangerous situations,” Hickenlooper said.

Since 2004, Safe2Tell “has prevented 1,000 suicides and 31 school attacks — that’s what we know about,” he said. “It has already received reports of 16 planned attacks since the beginning of the 2013-14 school year.”

Grants kept the program running for more than a decade, but the money was running out.

“The funding will no longer be a second thought or an afterthought,” Cadman said.

“As schools invest in this program and the education of the young people to know it’s safe to report, they know this will be available long into the future,” she said. “This is an infrastructure that goes beyond ‘See something, say something.’ We want people to know there is hope.”

A customer dining at Washington’s Oceanaire restaurant noticed an unusual line at the bottom of his receipt: “Due to the rising costs of doing business in this location, including costs associated with higher minimum wage rates, a 3% surcharge has been added to your total bill.”

Three fundraising giants decided to pull events from President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, on Thursday, signaling a direct blowback to his business empire from his comments on Charlottesville’s racial unrest.